H5N1 has been the dominant grouping of strains fueling this past year's outbreaks in the U.S., with different variants of that virus spreading in wild birds, poultry flocks, dairy cattle ...

What is bird flu? Will it affect egg and poultry prices at the grocery store? Is it legal to raise backyard chickens in Ohio?

At the center of the issue, fanning the on-going problem for poultry and dairy producers as well, is the Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1). AgriTalk Host Chip Flory ...

Whether it's ducks or chickens, since the current strain of bird flu, H5N1, reached the United States in 2022, over 148 million birds have been ordered euthanized. "It's a staggering number ...

Thus, a type A virus isolated in 1995 in Memphis Tennessee with a strain number of 123 and an H5N1 subtype is designated ... During the Second World War, the first inactivated vaccine was produced ...

The U.S. hasn’t been able to control the spread of the H5N1 bird flu. And now, there’s been a reported outbreak in the U.S. of another strain of avian influenza, H5N9. This H5N9 outbreak ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli covered the Covid-19 and mpox outbreaks, and has tracked the spread of H5N1 since 2003. When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed ...

The tools the US used to contain previous bird flu outbreaks just aren't working this time, according to some agricultural ...

Lithuania has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, on a laying hen farm ...

The more common H5N1 strain was also found at the same farm, which is located in Merced County, according to reports. Health agencies are conducting "comprehensive epidemiological investigations ...

Between 500 and 1,000 suspected cases of H5N1, also called avian flu, have been reported in Massachusetts birds. Sharing scientific data is important to track the outbreak. Just as Massachusetts ...

Sec. Mike Naig says the U.S. government is using what he describes as a three-legged stool approach to address the virus in the dairy and poultry industries.